ST. PAUL, Minnesota • On the day following the NHL trade deadline, hockey families were in focus. There was veteran defenceman Jordan Leopold, the newest Minnesota Wild, wiping a tear from his eye as his spoke of his 11-year-old daughter’s plea to bring her father home to Minnesota. Management of the Columbus Blue Jackets and […]

Columbus Blue Jackets player Jordan Leopold's daughter Jordyn wrote an open letter pleading for her father to be trading back to his hometown team, the Minnesota Wild. Minnesota ending up acquiring him shortly before the trade deadline. Boomer and Carton

The Ottawa Senators, after sweeping through California, play Game 4 of a five-game road trip against a Minnesota Wild team that has also been on a roll, winning 13 of its past 16 to start the week with a three-point lead in the fight for the final wild-card playoff spot in the West.

The Wild traded for ex-Gopher Jordan Leopold today before the deadline in a move designed to bolster their defensive group. You could choose to believe that the seeds of the trade were planted during some conversation between execs with the Wild and Columbus, but WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IT WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. We’re going to believe it was all thanks to a letter Leopold’s daughter sent the Wild, apparently sometime this season, basically begging them to bring her dad home. Here’s the letter, as tweeted by KFAN: Leopold’s 11 Year old daughter wrote the @MNWild a letter pleading for...

As the NHL's hottest team flipped the calendar to March and put to rest one of the best months in franchise history, the Minnesota Wild entered the final day before the NHL trade deadline content to stand pat and trust the players that have helped the team climb from the basement of the Western Conference into a wild-card spot.